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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Bequest


You left me, sweet, two legacies, —
A legacy of love
A Heavenly Father would content,
Had He the offer of; 

You left me boundaries of pain
Capacious as the sea,
Between eternity and time,
Your consciousness and me.



Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. Love’s Baptism
  2. Resurrection
  3. Rouge Gagne
  4. The Heart Asks Pleasure First
  5. To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave


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